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  • From: Pat Meadows <pat AT meadows.pair.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] was Worm damage now Onions damage
  • Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2006 08:42:15 -0400

On Sat, 10 Jun 2006 19:17:03 -0600, you wrote:

>It is eating my onions off at the
>ground level. These are big fat onions so I do not believe that this is
>cutworms. Also there are too many signs of soil damage around where this is
>happening. I can set a live trap but what to put in it. This critter has a
>taste for onions but I do not know what else. What is this thing? I have a
>ton of beautiful onions but at this rate they will be gone and I will have
>lost my profit. So far it has not touched the red onions. Hmmmmm!

Do you have gophers there?

I'm in the East, we don't have them here. But what you
write sounds like gopher damage from what I have read.

Pat
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Gardening in northern Pennsylvania.

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